New Epics

The previously mentionedguild challenges have just started showing up on the PTR! You can rest assured that we'll have them added to our PTR website but for now you can take a look at the updated interface and get an idea of what kind of "challenges" we'll be facing! These challenges will be an awesome way to earn tons of guild experience and appear to have weekly caps -- For example, the Heroic dungeon challenge can be completed 7 times, most likely in a row with the changes to the Daily Heroic system! Sounds awesome to me!

What do you think? What kind of guild challenges would you like to see?

There are a lot of in-game events nowadays. There are Call to Arms for battlegrounds some of us still haven't set foot in, the Darkmoon Faire is always coming and going, and then there are things like actual holidays and fishing tournaments. Keeping track of them can be confusing--or at least it was confusing. That all changes today as we've now added an event calendar to Wowhead that will show you what's going on in Azeroth right from the comfort of your own browser.

Since it was an otherwise slow day, we also hopped on the PTR to confirm whether or not the daily dungeon had been changed--and it has! Players will now be able to do seven dungeons a week instead of one dungeon per day. Cue sighs of relief from everyone, I'm sure. I'd personally rather do seven dungeons in a row with a group of guildmates over the weekend than squeeze one in every day.

That's right - ice cream. There weren't very many new models this patch but the ones that were included definitely stand out. In addition, we've (also) decided to post the winged lion model that you may have already seen floating around other sites. This model was actually added a few builds ago but looks rather unfinished at this time. We will, of course, post an updated version as soon as its available. So... what do you think it is?

In addition to the lion, we've also got a new Amani Bear model which is simply a recoloring of the old Amani War Bear. No word yet on whether or not this is the finished version of the upcoming , or simply a dungeon NPC or otherwise, but judging by the fact that the Zul'Gurub raptor looks to have gotten a recolor as well, this may be the case. Laaaaaaaaaaame. Oh, well!

When we were hit with a lot of new maps last week unexpectedly, everyone kept asking where Karazhan was. The answer was apparently in this build.

There are a lot more maps after the break--you didn't forget how big Karazhan is, did you?

Also, it looks like the new boss in Baradin Hold that was added in last weeks set of maps is now removed which means this patch is definitely on track to be released before the new arena season starts.

A new PTR patch has just been released. There have been the usual things you've come to expect--tooltip fixes, minor spell tweaks, and so on--mostly in response to last night's PTR Patch Note update. However, in this build there are also new items datamined, new icons, and some new maps which we'll cover in another post.

Notable changes include:

New items like , , and have been added--these look like archaeology finds to me! Perhaps Blizzard is making good on their word to add new things for us to dig up

As I'm sure many of you have noticed, the upcoming patch 4.1 marks the return of the classic Zul'Aman and Zul'Gurub raids as 5-player Heroic dungeons, featuring item level 353 epic quality loot! These items have just shown up in the latest PTR data and we've got 'em! Unfortunately, the items are not yet implemented as drops and do not yet feature unique models, so we do not yet have specific boss drop data or pretty 3D models - yet! However, as soon as the information is available, we'll definitely update - so stay tuned!

As always, you can check out our PTR site's Latest Additions right here: